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nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space
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As therefore the shoe is shaped by the foot, and not the foot by the shoe, so does the disposition make the life similar to itself.
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In the next place, it is false that those that have little to do are easy in mind.
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as the strings of the bow and lyre are alternately tightened and relaxed, so is it with the order of the world; in human affairs there is nothing pure and without alloy
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Whereas having many friends puts people apart and severs and disunites them, by transferring and shifting the tie of friendship too frequently, and does not admit of a mixture and welding of goodwill by the diffusing and compacting of intimacy.